Rolex’s history of creating tool watches can be traced back to the 1930s, when the timepieces it provided to explorers became an integral part of an expedition’s kit. In 1953, when Edmund Hillary and ...

New Rolex watches in the last year have nodded to the sporty, the classic and the fun, and epitomised classic codes of lightness, strength and legibility in rethought designs. Watch aficionados w ...

Explorer II, £6,800. rolex.com. Now read. This official Star Wars watch costs $150,000 – and it’s brilliantly insane. How to buy a lust-worthy vintage watch for under £1,000.

Rolex barely has to lift a finger for a new release. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Explorer II Ref. 216570, the new reference, 226570 has changed very little.

Rolex’s dedicated adventure watch, the Explorer, traces its origins back to mountain climbing in 1953. In 1971, however, another watch joined the collection with the name Explorer II and a quite ...

While the Explorer was bumped up to 39mm last year, the Explorer 2 is the Rolex sport watch with a modern size of 42mm in width. That is 2mm larger than the Sumbariner, and it likely wears better ...

It’s a classic Rolex bracelet, only on the 36mm Explorer it has a fairly dramatic taper, going from 19mm from the case to 14mm at the clasp; to some it could feel a tad dainty, but I enjoy the ...